January 2004
I hope someone here can help me - I got lots of advice when I posted a question about buying my first car.
My Dad died recently, and since my mum doesn't drive, we need to sell his car. Mum doesn't want to advesrtise it, and have people phoning up, and wanting test drives etc.
It's a 9 year old Carina, so we know it won't be worth very much, but we don't want to be completely ripped off either.
Is it worth asking the local Toyota dealer if they'd buy it do you think, or is it to old?
If not, can anyone suggest what the best thing would be?
I've phoned his insurance company, and they have a 1 month grace period in which to sell it, before the insurance is cancelled.
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Just looking at replacing my fuel line as it's leaking all over the place, is it OK using copper tubing (8mm)? Had a search on the internet, but nothing really relevant came up.
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Leaking all over the place?
I take it you aren't driving the car right now?
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groups.msn.com/honestjohn - Pictures say a thousand words.....
Bought the Daily Mail today, as it's running a diet that sounds interesting, and there is an article, with a photo, about a roundabout at the end of the M27 in Portsmouth that has been replaced with an intersection with 73 sets of traffic lights. A spokesperson said that there were only two accidents on the first day of operation.
Oh, and the leader of the council, who is defending the £5 million project, doesn't have a driving license, just a push bike. Read more
Only £5m. Think I might move there so that they can
waste my council tax on useless bits of road garbage. Makes
the £1m for a 1/4 mile bus lane (which only has
one of those small hoppa buses running on it) look not
quite as bad as I thought.
How do they come up with such unfeasibly large costs? God knows they must waste so much. Could you imagine a private building company, say a housing company, coming up with such huge costs?
the experts ( peugeot main agents ) can\'t solve it, so its over to you the real experts !!!!
Peugeot 106 XN 1.1 petrol 50k one owner, has just developed a problem. Car starts fine but has intermitent idling problem. ie. at roundabouts or traffic lights engine occasionally cuts out, but never happens for the garage. Part replaced is the Monojet Idle Control Unit ( code cleared ) but has not solved the cut out. Garage has had the car 3 times but failed to resolve.
I wait for the real answer from you good chaps ...........
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Yours sound like a vacuum leak, listen around all the manifold with a peice of plastic tube with one end held to you ear. Peter
This is a new one on me based on a concept from a John Nowakowski in 1968.
Does anyone have any more knowledge on how it works?? Dizzy?
This is all I can find and the diagram is not that helpful.
www.tinyurl.com/3yv76 Read more
what about a swashplate engine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_engine
these have been used in torpedo's for years
Folks,
This one should be built...
perso.wanadoo.fr/guillaume.brachon/citroen/galerie...l
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Pity about
the C5 - different but ugly and anonymous.
The inside is nicer than the outside! I'd be quite happy to sit there all day!
Just heard about yet another person (in this case a child) who's been knocked down and killed by a driver with no insurance, tax or MOT. Apparently there's quite a sizeable proportion of motorists driving illegally for one reason or another, totally flouting the law. I think it's about time the authorities got tough with these people but how best to do it ? I've always advocated a small premium on petrol to pay for basic 3rd party insurance cover or at least a decent fund for the victims of these scumbags but what can be done to crack down on illegal drivers ? Increasing sentences is one option but this only works as a deterrent if those concerned believe they're likely to get caught - which at present they don't seem to be! Read more
Borderline FiF, but I'm very tired so I shall let that slip.
DD has asked nicely that this stays away from politics and trys to stay on motoring. I'm not sure I would have had his patience, but as I have been incommunicado today it has been his call.
I can't see how this thread can really produce anything other than politically derived responses and so, for now, it will be made read-only. When I have a little more time to review the posts I may reconsider, but can you really see any response to the thread title that hasn't already been posted that will be purely motoring?
Thought not.
Maybe brought back to life tomorrow.
No Dosh
mailto:Alan_moderator@honestjohn.co.uk
Recently noticed that my Micra has developed a water leak which appears to be coming from behind the soundproofing material in the passenger footwell and seeping under the carpet. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Local garage has had a look but couldn't find where the water was getting in.
Anyone heard of other Micras with the same problem?
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>Anyone heard of other Micras with the same problem?
I am assuming your micra is the sqaure shape rather than the bubble shape. If you have a look from the outside you will see there is a grille directly in front of the windscreen in the centre of the scuttle panel. What tends to happen is that the rainwater obviously can fall through the grille and is supposed to then flow along a drainage channel and run out either side and exit somewhere under the wheel arches, but the seam which forms part of the drainage channel rots away until it goes into holes and thus the water ends up in the footwells.
If you take the carpet and soundproofing out and look up through a cut-out in the metal box section you should see the rotten seam.
I have seen this happen on another micra and so it would be a good place to start with in your quest to find the water leak.
Today's big news is that traffic wardens will be given the power to levy on the spot fines for infringement, e.g., stopping in the yellow cross hatched areas and causing holdups. I'm all for that in principle. Many times drivers have given me the "So what are you going to do about it" look.
We have in our village a warden named June. One day, when I was in the greengrocers, the handsome young male proprietor of the next door Italian restuarant stopped his swanky open top tourer on the yellow lines opposite and sauntered across with his jacket slung across his shoulders, 'Dolce Vita' style. In a short while there was June looking at it, rocking back and forth on her heels and sucking her teeth. The shop girls were shouting "Gerrim, June"! I missed what happened next, sad. Read more
whats the international recognised sign language for advising a fellow motorist the he / she has a half flat tyre?
twice recently we have tried to warn other drivers by overtaking and sounding the horn to attract attention and then proceed to use sign language, lip reading, finger pointing, etc. etc. but found it difficult to communicate with drivers who obvisously can not understand why their vehicle is cornering pooring or handling strangly.
I regularing whilst driving pick either a manhole cover or small road indentation and check the 'noise & feel' of each tyre, and hopefully will notice any differance from the norm.
So for my safety, and theres, what is the simpliest, easiest, method to inform another motorist at 70mph on a busy motorway that one of their tyres is part inflated and overheating, and about to cause danger to them and others!
Perhaps HJ could invent a sign which could be adopted into the highway code!
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What plod? Can't remember the last time I saw a traffic policeman.
Perhaps they'll teach the cameras to read?
Browse
If no luck that way, why not take it to an auction yourself, that way it will be out of site, and you probably wont get a huge amount less than a private sale with none of the hassel.